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An Alternative Now Where Food is Free and Freedom Reigns
Often when I think about the future I think about how it could be different. How it could be better. Did our ancestors also think about a better future? I bet they did. Take my Swedish ancestors for...
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The Ultimate Companion Planting Guide + Chart
Shortcuts Why Companion Planting? Benefits of Companion Planting Case Study: Three Sisters Garden Companion Planting Charts Companion Planting Plant Index Apple Apricot Asparagus Basil Beans Broad...
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Timeless Lessons in Permaculture & Tree Crops From Tuscany, Sardinia & Corsica
For the French Kingdom, chestnut was also “the food of laziness” because “a chestnut forest does not require any cultivation” (de Pommereul 1779, as cited in Pitte 1986:116). Chestnut was considered a...
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Want to Grow Your Own Food? Here Are 6 Masters to Learn From
So you want to grow your own food, and you want to do it successfully. Good news is, you’re not on your own. You don’t have to learn entirely by trial and error and spend year in and year out working...
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20 Vertical Gardening Ideas for Turning a Small Space into a Big Harvest
Vertical gardening is nothing more than using vertical space to grow vegetables (or herbs, or flowers, even root crops), often using containers that hang on a sunny wall. Traditional gardeners have...
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6 Cheap DIY Greenhouse Designs Inspired By Traditional Shelters
The perfect greenhouse “doesn’t exist yet, but we know the requirements. It must be simple to construct, easy to manage, environmentally sound, and pleasing to the eye. Some day soon the horticultural...
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5 Northern Greenhouse Examples for Cold Climates
Greenhouses are great for extending your growing season to 2, 3 or even 4 seasons. But what if you live in a place where it’s really cold or dark for many months of the year? Don’t despair,...
View ArticlePermaculture and the Myth of Scarcity
At a conference a couple weeks ago an activist who does work in Africa recounted an encounter she had with the minister of agriculture of a certain African country. The minister spoke with excitement...
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How to Start a Small Permaculture Nursery and Grow 1000s of Trees by Yourself
Recently I attended a farm forestry course with David Holmgren and Darren J. Doherty, a subject I’d like to address today. To even start a farm forestry operation, or even a permaculture orchard,...
View ArticleThis Amazing Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit
Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, uses “chip grafting” to create trees that each bear 40 different varieties of stone fruits, or fruits with pits. The grafting process...
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2015 Harvest Results: My 3,468% ROI on Potatoes
My return on investment from growing potatoes this season was 3,468%. I planted 2 kg potatoes and harvested 69.3 kg (69,365 grams to be exact), pretty much multiplying my potatoes by x34. And this...
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How to Grow 6,000 Lbs of Food on 1/10th Acre
Who would have thought you could find this self-sufficient beauty 15 minutes away from downtown Los Angeles? If you want to grow your own food and make sure that everything you put on the table is 100%...
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$300 Underground Greenhouse Grows Food Year Round; An Extraordinary Walipini
From vertical farms to solar-powered “farms from a box,” we’ve seen how farming technology has grown leaps and bounds in recent years. But for those who prefer something a little more rustic, growing...
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This Innovative New Greenhouse Makes It Possible To Grow Crops Even In The...
In regions that regularly experience high temperatures, frequent droughts, and severe dryness, farming is virtually impossible. Roots Up is a non-profit organization in Northern Ethiopia that strives...
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10 Easy DIY Greenhouse Plans (They’re Free!)
Building a greenhouse does not have to break your budget. There are cheap and easy to build greenhouse plans out there, and below you’ll find ten of them. Also check out these 6 DIY greenhouse designs...
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How To Grow Potatoes In Containers And Get An Amazing Yield
The traditional approach growing potatoes is to hill them. Essentially, you use a hoe to cover up the potato sprouts as they emerge to get more growth out of them. In contrast to the above, a growing...
View ArticleHow To Grow Food During Winter in a Greenhouse
This video demonstrates how you can grow during the winter in a 4 season greenhouse in Colorado. Here are five more examples of cold climate greenhouses. Greenhouses are great for extending your...
View ArticleHydroponic Farm Grows 350 Varieties of Vegetables with 90 minerals
John from Growing Your Greens goes on a field trip to Swank Specialty Produce that grows over 350 varieties of vegetables and uses 90 minerals to grow the best tasting food. In this episode, John will...
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Urban Farm Tour: Making $75,000 on 1/3 acre
Curtis Stone is an urban farmer, and a quite successful one at that. He started his own business using other people’s backyards for farming in an urban environment. After some years he managed to...
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The Most Efficient Irrigation System in the World
If you live in a hot and dry location and you want to grow a garden, or keep a potted plant on your balcony, you have a problem. It’s very hard to keep your plants properly watered. I might have a...
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